“Just Mercy,” the film based on the memoir by Bryan Stevenson ’85, ends with a sobering statistic: For every nine people executed in the U.S., one on death row is exonerated. As Professor Carol Steiker noted in a discussion following a screening of the film, that makes the U.S. No. 1 in a problematic category.
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‘Just Mercy’ in the criminal justice system
Harvard professors discuss new film, the story of Harvard Law alum Bryan Stevenson